Adjustable partition clip for trays and shelving



H. HARGETT June 19, 1956 ADJUSTABLE PARTITION CLIP FOR TRAYS AND SHELVING Filed May '7, 1952 AT jOR/VEY.

INVENTOR. 647E657;-

United States Patent ADJUSTABLE PARTITION CLIP FOR TRAYS AND SHELVING 2 Claims. (Cl. 211-55) Ohio, assignor to Commercial Montgomery, Ohio, a corporation My invention relates to a device for providing trays which may be made readily adjustable by means of unique slip devices.

In particular my invention comprises providing a base member to which are adjustably secured certain slip devices which permit shelving to be adjustably secured.

One of the principal objects of my invention is to provide clips which are adjustable relative to a base member to permit glass shelves to be adjusted relative thereto.

Another object of my invention is to provide means for securing shelving so that it may be adjusted without dismantling the shelving structure.

Another object of my invention is to provide a clip which may readily receive shelving members.

Still another object of my invention is to provide a clip which may readily receive shelving members and which is adjustable relative to the shelving members.

Other objects and objects relating to details of construction will definitely appear from the detailed description to follow in which:

Fig. l is an end View of the tray device having adjustable shelving.

Fig. 2 is a side view improved tray device.

Figure 3 is a view in side tray device.

Figure 4 is a detail 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Figure 5 is a plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 4.

Figure 6 is a view in perspective of the clips used on the structure shown in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4.

Figure 7 is a sectional view taken along the line 7-7 of Figure 6.

Figure 8 is a detail 8-8 of Figure 4.

Figure 9 is a view in perspective of one of the end clips.

In the drawings the same reference numerals refer to the same parts throughout the several views and the sectional views are taken looking in the direction of the arrows at the ends of the section lines.

In general my invention comprises a clip which is slidable on a metal strip. This clip is provided with openings which can receive glass partitions. The clip may be slid on these metal strips so that various size shelves which are held in the clips may be positioned relative to one another.

Referring to the numbered parts of the drawing I show in Figure 1 a portion of my shelving having a metal strip 11 to which is secured clips such as 12. I provide a metal clip having a pair of side walls 12b and 120 which are joined at their lower ends by a flat bottom wall 15a. In each side wall I provide an opening 14 which is adjacent to the flat bottom wall. The opening in the side wall of the clip on one side is in line with the opening in the other side wall of the clip. An indented portion 16a is provided in each of the side walls which is in a path extending from the lower edge of the side wall, at the partly in section showing my elevation showing my novel sectional view taken along the lines sectional view taken along the line point where it lies adjacent to the opening at its lower end, to the top edge of the side wall. This indentation in the side wall is of the same width and depth throughout the heighth of the side wall. The clips 12 are slidable on the metal strip 11. The metal strip may be secured to a portion of adjacent shelving by means of a clip such as clip 13. Clip 12 shown in Figure 6 and in Figure 7 shows how the metal strip 11 may be positioned within an opening 14 in the clip body and the clip is slidable relative to the metal strip 11. Thus when a piece of glass shelving is secured within the space between side walls 12b and 120, the assembly may be slid along the strip 11 to provide one side of a compartment which may by reason of its ready positioning be adjustable to various sizes. I provide projections 15 which serve to retain the glass shelves such as 16 positioned between adjacent metal strips, thus by positioning the clips relative to the metal strip 11, various sized openings may be formed. This renders the shelving adjustable both laterally and horizontally.

It may be desired to provide a series of removable shelves and accordingly I have provided in Figure 5 a clip 17 which has an opening to receive glass members.

In the device shown in Figure 5 the glass 18 will extend both above and below the metal strip portion and the clip shown in Figure 5 may be used to support vertical shelf separators. Often it is desired to support the metal strip adjacent to a glass shelf and for this purpose I provide a clip 19 through which the metal strip 11 may be slid and the glass secured adjacent to the metal strip within the clip opening 20. In general the clip 19, the clip 12 and the clip 13 are identical and are interchangeable by reason of their construction to perform the functions attributed to the clips described as separate members. I have provided at 21 a clip having a broken wall so that it may be positioned over the metal strip without disassembling the shelving so as to slide the clip endwise on the metal strip. I have also provided means for positioning shelving separators at an angle such as is illustrated in Figures 2 and 3. For angular separator shelving, I use a strip member 25 and use the same clip 12 positioned on this strip member. The separator shelves 26 are then secured within the opening of the clip 12 and rest against an angular portion of the metal strip 25.

Without further analysis, the foregoing detailed description will so fully and clearly disclose the invention, that others may readily adapt it for other variations, by retaining one or more of the features which constitute essential characteristics of the generic or specific aspects of this invention, and therefore I claim my invention broadly as indicated by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A device for providing separable compartments comprising a strip having a series of angular bends, a plurality of clips, each of said clips having a pair of side walls, a flat bottom wall adjoining said side walls with openings provided adjacent to the edges of the side wall and the flat bottom wall, said openings adapted to receive said strip, and an indentation on each side wall extending from the aforementioned opening to the top edge of each side wall, said indentation being of thesame width as the aforesaid strip, whereby said clip lies flush when slid upon and positioned at the base of an angular portion of said strip.

2. An angular separator device comprising a strip having a series of angular bends, a series of clips, one positioned at the base of each of said angular bends, each of said clips having a pair of side walls, a flat bottom wall joining said side walls with openings provided adjacent to the edges of the side wall and the flat bottom wall, said openings adapted to receive said strip, and an indentation on each side wall extending from the aforementioned opening to the top edge of each side wall and normal to the flat bottom wall said indentation formed in the side Wall being of the same general contour as said strip. 7

Ref erenees Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,631,983 Quigley June 14, 1927 4 Nielsen June 17, 1930 Venzie June 13, 1933 Palen Mar. 17, 1936 Vosburgh July 28, 1936 Richardson et al. Dec. 14, 1937 Sliger Jan. 27, 1942 Palmenberg Nov. 17, 1942 

